PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Primary Education: Standards (30 March 2017)

The Department operates an annual process to judge the suitability of qualifications that awarding organisations put forward for inclusion in performance tables.

Awarding organisations submit qualifications on a termly basis to be considered for inclusion in performance tables. We publish and update the lists of approved qualifications four times a year.

We reserve the right to remove a qualification from the approved list if we have evidence to indicate that it no longer meets the requirements for inclusion in the performance tables. In-year changes to the list may be made in exceptional circumstances. In making such a decision, we would consider whether there is sufficient curriculum time remaining for an alternative qualification to be studied.